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Originally posted by Yankee451
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by Yankee451
I am not claiming a lightweight aluminum jet wing can slice through structural steel as we've been shown on Television.
You're not? Then who is? Because you're the only one I know that is claiming the wing sliced thorugh the steel.
Please give me some reference for this slicing action.
Please highlight where it says "wing slices through steel". I can't seem to find that.
The damage from the impact of a Boeing 767 aircraft (which is about 20 percent bigger than a Boeing 707) into each tower is well documented in NCSTAR 1-2. The massive damage was caused by the large mass of the aircraft, their high speed and momentum, which severed the relatively light steel of the exterior columns on the impact floors. The results of the NIST impact analyses matched well with observations (from photos and videos and analysis of recovered WTC steel) of exterior damage and of the amount and location of debris exiting from the buildings. This agreement supports the premise that the structural damage to the towers was due to the aircraft impact and not to any alternative forces.
wtc.nist.gov...
Note the close up images of the slicing action linked below.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Baloney. If you are going to wallow in these alternative scenarios of sinister conspiracies involving secret controlled demolitions, lasers from outer space, or whatever...and we both know that you are.
...then it most definitely is your responsibility to make sure that they need to better fit all the facts than the thermal expansion scenario does. Otherwise, you're not looking at the evidence to derive an explanation. You're deriving the explanation and trying to force the evidence to conform to the explanation.
Ahem...
"My original response to the OP is that there are way too many variables involved- the structural damage inflicted by the impact, the damage to the fire insulation and fire suppression systems, which specific component of the towers failed first- are all largely an unknown, so we cannot conclusively prove anything either way."
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by Yankee451
Well, that and my sister's eyewitness.
Originally posted by Yankee451
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by Yankee451
Well, that and my sister's eyewitness.
Name please.
Originally posted by Yankee451
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by Yankee451
Well, that and my sister's eyewitness.
Name please.
Originally posted by hooper
Originally posted by Yankee451
Originally posted by hooper
reply to post by Yankee451
Well, that and my sister's eyewitness.
Name please.
Yeah, that would be the day.
Face it, I'm like thousands of other Americans that personally know witnesses, and your asking us to think that our friends, relatives, etc. are either pathetically stupid or profound liars.
Originally posted by patriots4truth
Any explosions detonated during the collapse progression were to keep the buildings' collapse "on track". The perpetrators wanted the buildings to fall on themselves so that evidence would demolish itself.
Originally posted by hooper
Originally posted by patriots4truth
Any explosions detonated during the collapse progression were to keep the buildings' collapse "on track". The perpetrators wanted the buildings to fall on themselves so that evidence would demolish itself.
That's interesting. Now exactly how does casuing the buildings to fall on themselves destroy all evidence of the controlled demolition? Remember 1000's of persons would be combing very carefully through the wreckage and debris first looking for survivors and then looking for remains.
It didn't necessarily destroy all the evidence but it would do a better job at burying evidence than toppling over at an angle. Plus falling in on itself would guarantee the deaths of everyone left inside if there was any witnesses. And who knows what other evidence the perpetrators wanted buried under the rubble (maybe they wanted the basement area buried as much as possible). Also, the perps may not of wanted the towers to fall on other buildings (for whatever the reason).